Daily Step – Don’t put that pen down!
How many times have you given up on a creative dream? Put your pencil down, closed your laptop, washed off your paint brush and said “no...
April 19, 2022
Daily Step – Do you consider yourself a creative person?
Do you consider yourself a creative person? Creativity, I have learned, comes in a lot of forms. If we are able to move beyond the containers...
January 27, 2022
Daily Step – Does it really matter what color you color a tree?
Does it really matter what color you color a tree? My twins started taking coloring books and crayons into the car late last week. They both...
May 3, 2021
Daily Step – Take a moment of escape today.
I’m gonna do my best to recall this fantastic dream that one of my twins swears he had last night. His original telling was much better...
October 12, 2020
Daily Step – You have all you need.
The contents of my recycling bin are currently scattered all over my house. “Mom, can I use this milk carton to build a robot?” one child...
August 7, 2020
Daily Step – One bead at a time…
In the early days of quarantine, I spent a lot of time on Amazon. I looked for school supplies for my oldest and art supplies to...
August 3, 2020
Daily Step – A Glimpse of Christmas in July
Does anyone else wish it were Christmas right about now? Yea me too. Though these wrapped boxes are not actually from some attempt to create Christmas...
July 16, 2020
Daily Step – Let us believe like children.
“Mommy, we are making a “fluffy” camp-out!” Last night, after many daytime hours of fighting, my three boys actually banded together to do what they love...
July 14, 2020
Daily Step – Paper and Tape and Vision
New life greeted me the other day born from a pack of construction paper and a roll of masking tape. I walked into the twins room...
June 19, 2020
Daily Step – Bringing Stories to Life
Last night, I walked into my office to find an explosion of kid scissors and paper scraps. There is always collateral damage to my boys creativity....
June 12, 2020